Programs TOPICS:

In this exciting, interactive presentation I use media such as texting and twitter. It is designed to encourage lively discussions on sensitive topics such as sexuality, sexual assault, alcohol abuse and binge drinking. This successful approach provides useful information while eliminating any awkwardness often associated with some of this material. I create a talk show/game show atmosphere and by using a multi-media approach I am able to bring the whole audience into the discussion. I work with you on marketing to get people to come to events which are often poorly attended unless mandatory through unique ideas and PR materials.

Can you drink responsibly? Maybe, but it won't work to just say no. I have been speaking on alcohol awareness for over 25 years and I have come to the conclusion the best thing I can do is present tools on living in an environment where there is alcohol. From communication to abstinence, I give ideas on how to survive any event where there are substances. Through humor and audience participation I try to reach every aspect of alcohol and drug use from problem drinkers, chronic consumption of weed, occasional partiers, binge drinking to those who choose not to drink or drug at all. My goal is to give the audience ways to be able to get out of bad situation, prevent a disaster or just wake up not regretting the night before.

In both SEXED and Surviving The Weekend I include issues around sexual assault from lowering the risk of sexual assault to dealing with the aftermath. It is an incredibly important topic that needs to be addressed and can often be very difficult to get people to participate and to acknowledge. Through personal experience and the use of texting I have been able to help people better understand how to deal with sexual assault and how it effects us personally and as a society. I can include more or less of this topic when I present. I can also do a program that is exclusively on sexual assault.

THIS Is a one woman performance based on the experience of falling deeply in love in the face of death, living with two terminal illnesses and coming to terms with a past that was riddled with poor choices. The show is filled with human vulnerability, humor and grace. This is a wonderful piece if you want to combine entertainment with education or want to bring something unique and provocative to your community theater.

River Huston was diagnosed HIV positive in her last year of college and less than a year later was diagnosed with a chronic, often fatal bone marrow condition listing her terminally ill for the next 25 years. In a powerful narrative she shares her challenges, experiences and hope. Regardless of the physical and emotional difficulties she faced she was still able to write 5 books, run a marathon, write, produce, direct and act in a one woman show, build a successful lecture career, travel around the world, write a monthly column and live a life that incorporated her values including service, forgiveness and compassion.​

My talks are appropriate for conferences, colleges, high schools, corporations events and any audience that will benefit from learning life skills that can show you how to turn challenges into accomplishment, how choices, not circumstances, determine achievement and how to appreciate our differences instead of judging them.

River Huston

River Huston is a sex educator and college speaker, as well as an award winning poet, journalist, painter, performer and activist. She travels throughout the United States speaking at colleges, conferences, corporate events on issues related to sexuality, addiction and overcoming challenges.

She has been featured on Good Morning America, Showtime, NBC, Nightline and CNN. She has a degree in Physical Education and Music from Hunter College and was awarded an honorary Doctorate from Albright College for her work in the community. River was given the Dorthea Lange/Paul Taylor award for her book, A Positive Life: Portraits Of Women Living With HIV, and is the creator of Goddess: A New Guide to Feminine Wisdom. In 1995, she was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and is the author of three books of poetry. She was honored with the Karen Sofield Award, William Patterson Recognition Award and Hyacinth AIDS Foundation Contribution Award for 10 years of service. In 2009 she was the recipient of the Leeway Transformation Award in recognition of her work over the past two decades.